Hi Mike,

Thanks for taking the time to test, and for the background info. I hadn't
considered the bug tracker!

I'll see if we can get it in there :)

Cheers,

Alex


On Mon, 21 Jan 2019, 14:42 Mike Gran <spk121@yahoo.com wrote:

> On Mon, Jan 21, 2019 at 09:25:17AM +0000, Alex Sassmannshausen wrote:
> > Hello,
> >
> > In December Aleix proposed the following patch to address an issue in
> > guile.m4 whereby guile programs using the autotools infrastructure would
> > not find guile and other tools on distributions such as Ubuntu:
> >
> > http://lists.gnu.org/archive/html/guile-devel/2018-12/msg00002.htm
>
> +1 on getting this incorporated.  I tested the patch and it worked
> for me.
>
> >
> > Guile-Hall, which aims to be a newbie friendly way to create new, and
> > manage existing guile projects, is also affected by this issue.
> >
> > What's the status at this point?  Is there anything that needs to happen
> > before this patch can be merged into Guile?
> >
> > Best wishes,
> >
> > Alex
> >
>
> It isn't so easy to get one-off patches noticed right now, as far
> as I can tell.  Sometimes, you have better luck by putting them
> in the bug-tracker, and then Mark might notice them.
>
> -Mike
>